Merging care and prevention: preventive properties of antiretroviral drugs and HIV chronification in the case of Switzerland.
Noëllie GenreFrancesco PanesePublished in: Anthropology & medicine (2021)
Medication is closely involved in the subjective experience of chronic diseases, but also in the chronification process of illnesses which is described in this paper in the specific case of HIV. The development of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) and the progressive recognition of their potential dual use as treatment as prevention (TasP) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reshape the experience of HIV and its transmission. Acknowledging the importance of a socioanthropological approach to drugs, this paper highlights how therapeutic strategies of treatment and prevention currently shape the process of HIV chronification and its experience for people concerned with ARVs in Switzerland, whether they are seropositive patients on lifelong treatment or seronegative people affected by the preventive properties of drugs.
Keyphrases
- hiv positive
- hiv infected
- human immunodeficiency virus
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv aids
- men who have sex with men
- hiv testing
- hepatitis c virus
- healthcare
- hiv infected patients
- multiple sclerosis
- end stage renal disease
- chronic kidney disease
- emergency department
- combination therapy
- replacement therapy
- climate change
- drug induced
- prognostic factors
- chronic pain
- peritoneal dialysis
- sleep quality